Former skipper and BCCI president, Sourav Ganguly, recently, announced that the Indian team will be traveling to Sri Lanka in July for a limited-overs series. As per Sri Lanka Cricket’s proposed itinerary to the BCCI, the tour is scheduled to start with a three-match One Day series on July 13, 16, and 19.The One Day series will be followed by three T20 Internationals that will be hosted on July 22, 24, and 27. SLC has decided to host all the matches at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo in a bio-secure bubble to ensure the safety of the players. However, the rising COVID-19 cases, has put the tour under scanner, as as Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) CEO Ashley De Silva admitted that Covid-19 cases are a matter of concern.
However, the CEO is confident that despite the increase in positive coronavirus cases, Sri Lanka will be able to successfully host India. “Increase in Covid-19 cases are a big worry but we have successfully hosted England and others during Covid times and we are confident we will be able to host India as well, just keeping fingers crossed that cases don’t increase”, said Senior representative of Sri Lanka Cricket to InsideSport.co. Meanwhile, as per the original Future Tour Programme (FTP) by the International Cricket Council (ICC), India was scheduled to host Sri Lanka in 2020 but the tournament was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. As per a report in Cricbuzz, there are high possibilities that Dravid along with his staff at the National Cricket Academy will company the Indian team on their Sri Lanka tour. Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav among others would be the players available for the Sri Lanka tour.
